Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 111
So Iván Tsarévich left them his silver snuff-box, and set out on his road.
Who acts: Iván · What happens: leave, set out · To what, where: scales, road
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iván), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 left | advmod |
| 2 | Iván | Iván | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 3 | Tsarévich | Tsarévich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Iván | flat |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | obj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 box | nmod:poss |
| 7 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 box | amod |
| 8 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 box | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 snuff | punct |
| 10 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 set | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 set | cc |
| 13 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 set | compound:prt |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 road | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 road | nmod:poss |
| 17 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 set | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Iván | scales = scale | Iván's silver snuff box obj | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme box=Attribute | |||
| 2 | set out | past | Iván not said here | Iván's road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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